Secondary Planning Issues and Recommendations

Arboretum –

While the Cofrin Memorial Arboretum is an important element of the campus identity and pro-vides a valuable research and recreational function, it forms a physical and perceived barrier between campus and community.

Recommendations:

Continue to preserve and maintain existing arboretum land holdings

Continue to make the arboretum accessible to non-campus community users

Encourage the use of the Cofrin Memorial Arboretum Land and Resource Management Plan, drafted by the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, in management of the arboretum

Campus Entry –

While UW-Green Bay seeks to open its doors to community users, prospective students, and other visitors, the campus lacks an obvious point of arrival and key destination points are visually and/or physically inaccessible.

Recommendations:

Create a gateway into the academic core and a destination point for visitors

Provide a pedestrian connection to key destination points such as Student Services, University Union, and Cofrin Library

Preserve space for potential terrace feature with food service at grade in the campus quad

Design and implement the quad as a “traditional” campus gathering space

Link the Weidner Center and Studio Arts to the entry plaza

Pedestrian Spaces –

While the UW–Green Bay campus wishes to promote safe, inviting spaces for students, faculty, staff , prospective students, and other visitors, it lacks some of the basic physical planning elements familiar to campuses worldwide.

Recommendations:

Create a campus entry that allows visual access to many major buildings within the academic core and provide visitor parking at the entry feature

Create a campus quad that becomes a social, active space at the heart of campus

Continue to promote the use of courtyards and windowed hallways adjacent to concourse connections

Site Specific Studies

While the Master Plan seeks to focus on broad issues of campus growth and development, site speciﬁc studies offer more detailed conceptual developments of smaller projects that could improve the experience of the UW–Green Bay user.

Recommendations:

Develop a small retail area on or immediately adjacent to the northeast corner of campus near undergraduate student housing